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Golden Age 42 Departure

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    Hamburg is a big city, and the International Polar Bear Organization (different from China) has developed very well here. The organization has even acquired several specialized factories here to manufacture hibernating equipment. Many of the employees in the factories are also hibernators.  According to what Han Le has learned in the past few days, it seems that the Hibernation Organization does not pay them wages, and they have no such demand. According to their agreement with the Polar Bear, the only return they ask for is that the organization guarantees their lives in the future.  And the freedom to hibernate - it has been decided that these factories will be naturally public enterprises.  The boat Han Le and the others were going to take was also decided. Qiao Yiyu also took him to see it once. It was parked on the edge of the port. It was much larger than the "fishing boat" Han Le had imagined. Except for a few of them,  There are hundreds of passengers on the ship, but only five or six are awake - most of them are packed in rectangular hibernation cabinets and stacked neatly at the bottom of the cargo hold.  After the ship leaves for a period of time, many fish and shrimps will be deliberately piled on these hibernating cabinets to deal with possible coast guard inspections.  When Han Le thought about that scene, he felt a little hard to accept. However, several hibernators he knew said that the situation now is much better than in the past. In the past few years, when the anti-hibernation was the most stringent, there was no need for a freezer, and they could directly  There are also cases where people and seafood are frozen together and shipped out!  As Qiao Yiyu expected, at the end of February, Qiao Yiyu received a package forwarded from Switzerland. In the package were Qiao Yiyu's watch and a handwritten letter. In this era, except in museums, other  It was hard to find handwritten information in the place. Qiao Yiyu picked it up and took a look at it. Most of the letters were explanatory. The tone was very soft, saying that the previous treatment of them was for the benefit of the country, so let them not mind  The end of the letter naturally asked Qiao Yiyu to go back and contribute to the sprint to the advanced stage of socialism Qiao Yiyu didn't understand why these people were so confident and felt that the future they just talked about was the truth they had always believed in.  Maybe there are some similarities between the two in terms of general structure, but it's like modern society is in a sense the paradise imagined by the ancients, but are the two really the same thing?  The differences definitely outweigh the commonalities.  On March 3, the ship departed from the Port of Hamburg on time. In order to cope with possible interrogations, the three of them also learned some general knowledge about fishing ships before departure. But perhaps God blessed them, from leaving Hamburg to entering the Arctic Ocean.  During the most dangerous stretch of the road, the boat was not targeted by any police.  After entering the Arctic Ocean, the atmosphere became more relaxed. Qiao Yiyu and Han Le actually tried fishing several times with the simple fishing equipment on the boat, and the harvest was not small. It was enough for a seafood feast.  This was Han Le's first time on a boat, his first experience of what the ocean was, so everything felt fresh. He didn't feel tired even if he spent a whole day watching the ocean on the deck Su Pei was like a dragon on land, but in the sky  , entering the sea, he looked a little embarrassed. The day after the boat sailed out, he vomited and turned upside down Approaching the North Pole, Han Le found that every time he sailed for a period of time, facilities like offshore platforms would appear in his field of vision.  , Qiao Yiyu said that those are monitoring stations set up by environmental monitoring agencies in the former Arctic glaciers.  Now, there are no so-called glaciers in the Arctic, and only large pieces of broken ice can be seen on the sea surface.  The ship docked on the 15th, in a port that didn¡¯t even have a name. The port was very modern, but there were not many people in sight.  Because they were not contacted until after they arrived, the person waiting to pick them up had not yet arrived, and they had to wait at the port for a while.  In early March, this place was still within the Arctic Circle, and the temperature was horribly low, even lower than the Arctic Ocean that we had just passed through. It was close to more than 20 degrees below zero. Even if he was wearing heating clothes (there are heating circuits in the clothes), Han Le did not dare to go out.  In the cabin, the wind hit my face like a whip.  The captain said that no one lived here at all more than ten years ago because the weather was too cold. The last time he drove a scientific research ship here, the local Inuit who came to pick them up drove a dog sled.  ¡ª¡ªHe felt incredible at the time.  But now, they definitely can't see dog sleds. After the battery becomes miniaturized, humans can't wait to connect it to electricity as long as it is a thing. Now in the Arctic Circle, hovercraft is the most common land transportation.  After waiting for almost three or four hours, there was finally movement on the white horizon in the distance. Two huge hovercrafts were like mammoth beasts on the snowfield, rushing along the road covered by heavy snow, with huge air currents.  Large clouds of snow and fog were raised near the hovercraft.  Just like in China, Switzerland, and Hamburg before, the people who came to pick them up knew Qiao Yiyu and were enthusiastic.  By the time we arrived at our destination, it was already evening. It was winter in the northern hemisphere. Although it had passed the polar night, the night was still very long.  Because of the thermal insulation design of the hovercraft, Han Le couldn't see outside on the way here. After getting off the car, he realized that he was already underground.??I have stayed in the underground city in Ningzhou before, which is somewhat similar, but it is much smaller in scale, but the visual effect is very good. There are large soft lights and the buildings are like palace complexes. They are one big piece after another.  The large blocks are combined organically, rather than the impression of residential buildings that divide the space into small individual buildings one after another.  According to the internal calculations of the polar bear organization, this place cannot be called a city or village. At best, it is a "hibernation area", which is a place that provides basic hibernation survival services. A large ring has been built in the core of this hibernation area.  Like cold storage, hibernation is completely self-service. People who need to hibernate only need to stand in a vertical hibernation cabinet when they are sleepy and set basic hibernation parameters (such as when to wake up, or what conditions are met to wake up).  All that's left is to wait unconsciously for the moment of awakening.  There is a living area in the hibernation area, which is where Han Le and the others saw when they first arrived. It contains a canteen, a warehouse, and a garage with many tool trucks. Qiao Yiyu said that according to the internal regulations of the Polar Bear Organization, every day  Every once in a while, several hibernators will be awakened to "work" here, that is, to maintain the normal operation of the entire hibernation area.  Han Le seemed to be very interested in this point: "Then when will it be our turn?" Qiao Yiyu smiled: "We are privileged people, we don't need it." Han Le didn't think this was a privilege: "If you follow  I'm the same. It's been decades since I woke up. It will definitely be interesting to wake up a few times. Is the maintenance work here heavy?  There is heavy work. It¡¯s nothing more than ordering something online and notifying someone else to fix it if it¡¯s broken Polar Bear will recruit some people from the society to do it, but it¡¯s usually not necessary.¡± Qiao Yiyu said as he spoke.  Pointing to a few switches and lights in front of him, he said: "Look, some basic things here are still the same as they were fifty or sixty years ago. The latest smart concepts are not used because of the consideration of simplifying maintenance work. Because smart systems  They all keep pace with the times Especially in the hibernation area, all power and refrigeration equipment have a backup set. " "Are we going to hibernate here?" Although he already knew the answer, Han Le still asked subconsciously.  , he regretted it as soon as he said it, this is another nonsense.  "What, you don't feel comfortable with it?" Qiao Yiyu turned around and looked at him. Han Le could see some worry in his eyes.  Qiao Yiyu is telling the truth. He is uncomfortable with it, but that doesn't mean he is unwilling to do it.  Han Le shook his head: "It's okay." After sleeping in the living area at night, when having breakfast the next morning, Qiao Yiyu formally talked about her future plans: "Now we only have hibernationotherwise,  Any activity we have will attract the attention of the government. This is a big problem that can only be solved by hibernation. " "How long will we have to hibernate?" It's not that Su Pei has doubts about this decision, but he subconsciously wants to have a say. "  What if the government keeps watching us? And will they find this place" "You decide how long you want to hibernate," Qiao Yiyu nodded, "You are free to decide for yourself. As for other issues, I can't deal with them.  Guaranteed, I can only say that this is the most suitable plan I can think of." After speaking, Qiao Yiyu glanced at Han Le: "What about you, Han Le?" Han Le shook his head: "No objection.  I just thought that since hibernation is so convenient, I would like to wake up once every 10 years, for a week or a month. "If there is anything interesting, wake me up," Su Pei said.  "If we continue hibernating like this," Su Pei counted on his fingers as he spoke, "10 years of waking up for one month, one year equals one hundred and twenty years, and ten years equals one thousand two hundred years If we continue to live like this  "Isn't he already a mummy?" Han Le's heart moved, and he subconsciously remembered what Qiao Yiyu said after five thousand years If calculated this way, he would be able to hibernate for more than forty years. In other words, Qiao Yiyu would be able to hibernate for more than forty years.  That era is not far away from me.  But obviously, in Qiao Yiyu's description, there is a gap between their civilization and the current earth civilization, which means that this situation will not happen - but if so, what interrupted this process?  ?  disaster?  war?   With this small expectation of guessing the future, when he felt sleepy at night, Han Le walked towards his own hibernation cabinet - the hibernation cabinet here was designed to be vertical, and he would wait for others to enter before turning around.  This somewhat eliminates some of the negative psychological effects.  When closing his eyes, Han Le even tried to imagine that he was in a certain vehicle, like a train traveling through time. The only thing that could wake him up and open his eyes wasThe most eye-catching factor is the reminder that the train has arrived.  It is said that in the earliest times, taking a train was considered a very dangerous thing. It is similar to hibernation, but it is actually the same.  From another perspective, the hibernation cabinet is equivalent to a train leading to the future.
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